So is this the straight arm method vs the bent arm? It would appear that compared to Dan, Dave is keeping his arm mostly straight except for that slight bend and he's getting the power from the wrist extension, and hips/torso.

If you pause it around the 12 second mark and advance frame by frame, you'll see that he actually does get the disc in close and around the sternum right pec area --- it's just that it's a *lot* lower of a pull. He's actually almost touching his belt buckle with the disc. Which means he's not slinging it from his rear shoulder/back hip. He's also obviously not slipping out. I think his form is consistent with the DGR articles, just without a bent elbow and a much lower pull.

I could be waaaay off, but to me it looks to me like he might be throwing a huge distance line. He's pushing it off to the left, but he's lined up to throw straight. He doesn't need to exaggerate the elbow chop because he already knows how to generate a ton of wrist extension.

In other words, he's manipulating the flight of the disc in that video, so it won't look like a text book throw. If you can get that kind of wrist extension without using the articles on this site, you probably don't need to read them anyway.

Banzai wrote:If you pause it around the 12 second mark and advance frame by frame, you'll see that he actually does get the disc in close and around the sternum right pec area --- it's just that it's a *lot* lower of a pull. He's actually almost touching his belt buckle with the disc. Which means he's not slinging it from his rear shoulder/back hip. He's also obviously not slipping out. I think his form is consistent with the DGR articles, just without a bent elbow and a much lower pull.

From what I can see, he's in close to his left hip, but he's nowhere near his right pec at any level at any point. His arm is only slightly bent, so it won't go close at all to the right pec with his throw there.

It would appear that he's using the mostly straight arm as a fulcrum(?) and powering the throw with lower body rotation and wrist extension.